EP3238402A1 - Method and system for dynamic rate adaptation of a stream of multimedia contents in a wireless communication network - Google Patents
Method and system for dynamic rate adaptation of a stream of multimedia contents in a wireless communication networkInfo
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- the present invention refers to communication systems. More particularly, the present invention relates to the field of wireless or mobile telecommunication networks. Even more particularly, the present invention relates to the rate control of streams of multimedia contents for streaming services in a wireless communication network.
- Streaming services such as video delivery, i.e. services in which a multimedia content (e.g., a multimedia file, such as a video recording or video clip) is constantly received by and presented to an end user, while being delivered by a provider of the streaming service, are already widely popular and are expected to become dominant in current and next generation wireless communication networks, particularly in cellular systems, mainly thanks to the increment in the network available bandwidth, for example allowed by both Long Term Evolution (LTE) and Long Term Evolution Advance (LTE-A) standards for mobile telephony networks.
- LTE Long Term Evolution
- LTE-A Long Term Evolution Advance
- a user may experience a fluctuation in time of the available bandwidth, which may be due to the variation of both the channel quality and the traffic load. Such a fluctuation may significantly influence the quality of the offered service, especially for streaming services, thus causing interruption or lagging in the provision of the multimedia content.
- scalable multimedia content e.g. scalable video
- the quality of a video stream may be adapted according to the amount of bandwidth available for a given user wishing to enjoy the video.
- AVC Advanced Video Coding
- SVC Scalable Video Coding
- FGS Fine Grained Scalability
- MDC Multiple Description Coding
- DASH Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP
- MPEG-DASH defines a client-server architecture configured for delivering scalable (mainly video) multimedia contents through HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol).
- HTTP Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
- each multimedia content is divided in chunks of fixed or variable (i.e., different from chunk to chunk) length.
- Each multimedia content chunk is associated with a plurality of multimedia content segments available within the remote server, which is configured to provide the streaming services (e.g., a server of a provider of streaming services).
- Each segment associated with a same multimedia content chunk comprises the same portion of the multimedia content, but each of the multimedia content segments is a version of the multimedia content portion encoded with a specific encoding rate, e.g. a specific frame rate in the case of a video (therefore, the multimedia content segments associated with the same multimedia content chunk have a different size, expressed in number of bits, one from the other).
- a list of its chunks, associated multimedia content segments and their storage location inside the server e.g., expressed through a plurality of Universal Resource Locators - URLs
- encoding rates, and other parameters associated with the multimedia content are organized according to a so-called Media Presentation Description (MPD) file stored in the server.
- MPD Media Presentation Description
- the end user In order to access the streaming service and receive a (desired) multimedia content, the end user (to be intended by means of a user equipment such as a personal computer, a smartphone, a tablet and the like) has to obtain the MPD file first.
- the MPD file can be delivered by the server to the end user via HTTP, email, or by similar data transmission mechanisms.
- the end user Once the end user has obtained the MPD file, the user can send to the server a request for receiving segments (of different chunks) of the multimedia content.
- the user can estimate the available transmission bandwidth and request to the server the most suitable (in terms of number of bits) segments of each chunk listed within the MPD.
- the MPEG-DASH standard does not provide any specific guideline to design and implement a rate control algorithm adapted to be implemented at the end user side.
- Xiaoling Qiu; Haiping Liu; Deshi Li; Song Zhang; Ghosal, D.; Mukherjee, B., "Optimizing HTTP -based Adaptive Video Streaming for wireless access networks", Broadband Network and Multimedia Technology (IC-BNMT), 2010 3rd IEEE International Conference, vol., no. pp.838, 845, 26-28 Oct. 2010 discloses an optimization algorithm to address the issue of bitrate switching in HTTP-based adaptive video streaming.
- the optimization algorithm is based on IIS (Internet Information Services) Smooth Streaming architecture, and can be easily applied to Adobe Flash Dynamic Streaming, and Apple HTTP Adaptive Bitrate Streaming.
- the optimization algorithm selects the best video bitrate according to channel condition and the amount of video stream buffered in the client to provide viewers the best possible quality while reducing the number of interruptions.
- WiDASH proxy adapted to enhance the Quality-of-Experience (QoE) of wireless DASH.
- WiDASH proxy locates at the edge between Internet and wireless core networks. WiDASH proxy is in charge of video adaptation, which makes it feasible to perform global optimization over multiple concurrent DASH flows. WiDASH proxy improves DASH QoE by splitting the original TCP connection from DASH server to a wireless user into one wired TCP and multiple wireless TCPs.
- WiDASH proxy employs video quality aware dynamic prioritization. Low bit rate video streams are entitled with high priority to guarantee minimum QoE for users with bad wireless channel quality.
- WiDASH comprises a multiple-input multiple-output adaptive optimal controller, based on adaptive control theory.
- PRRT Predictably Reliable Real-time Transport
- WO 2013/002828 discloses systems and methods for determining available bandwidth and performing initial stream selection when commencing adaptive bitrate streaming using Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) in accordance with embodiments of the invention.
- An embodiment includes performing a bandwidth probe to obtain an estimate of the available bandwidth between a playback device and a remote server, where the bandwidth probe comprises the playback device requesting blocks of data of increasing size from the remote server until the time taken to download a requested block exceeds a predetermined threshold, selecting an initial stream from said plurality of streams of encoded media that are encoded at different maximum bitrates using the playback device based upon the maximum bitrates of the plurality of streams and the estimated available bandwidth, and commencing streaming of encoded media by requesting portions of the encoded media from the initial streams using the playback device.
- HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol
- WO 2013/072080 discloses a mobile telecommunication device comprising: a receiver for receiving content data via a mobile telecommunication network; a play-out buffer for holding downloaded but yet un-played content data; a media reader for reading content data at a media rate from the play-out buffer and for sending content to a display or speaker for rendering; a segment request controller for sending media segment requests to a remote server; a buffer fill monitor for checking a fill level of the play-out buffer, continuously or at least at the end of a media segment download.
- the segment request controller is configured to switch between a state of continuously requesting media segments and a state of not requesting any media segments. This switching is depending on the fill level. By restricting the download of segments, more and longer idle periods are created which increase the chance that the radio state is switched down, so as to save battery and resources.
- WO 2012/059897 discloses a method that comprises performing one or more checks associated with hyper text transport protocol streaming of segmented media data, the segmented media data being streamed at a current bandwidth level corresponding to current representation of the content; deciding, based on the results of the one or more checks, whether or not to switch to another representation associated with another bandwidth level different from said current bandwidth level; and upon deciding to switch to another representation, selecting a new representation with a bandwidth level different from said current bandwidth level; and requesting a next media segment from the new representation.
- the Applicant has found that the known solutions mentioned above fail in identifying all the causes that involve a fluctuation of the available bandwidth in a wireless communication network and therefore fail in ensuring satisfactory performances for the streaming service under a wide range of network conditions.
- one aspect of the present invention proposes a method of downloading a multimedia content MC from a server to a client through a wireless communication network.
- the multimedia content is subdivided into a plurality of portions ck j and for each portion the server storing a plurality of versions segi j thereof each of which is encoded with a specific encoding quality bri j .
- the method comprises: selecting, among the plurality of versions segi j of each portion ck j of the multimedia content MC, a version segi j of said portion ck j of the multimedia content MC to be downloaded on the basis of wireless communication parameters determined at at least two different layers of a wireless communication network OSI protocol stack at the client.
- each portion ck j of the multimedia content MC has a respective time duration Ts and the step of selecting a version segi j among the plurality of versions of each portion ck j of the multimedia content MC is iterated with a periodicity Tp longer than the time duration Ts of each portion ck j of the multimedia content MC.
- the periodicity Tp is an integer multiple of the time duration Ts of each portion ck j of the multimedia content MC.
- the step of selecting a version segi j among the plurality of versions of each portion ck j of the multimedia content MC comprises: selecting versions segi j having a same specific encoding quality br tj for a number M of consecutive portions ck j of the multimedia content MC to be downloaded.
- the periodicity Tp is equal to sum of the time durations Ts of the selected number M of consecutive portions ck j of the multimedia content MC.
- the wireless communication parameters determined at the at least two different layers of a wireless communication network OSI protocol stack at the client comprise: first wireless communication parameters determined at an application layer of the OSI protocol stack, second wireless communication parameters determined at a level of a data link layer of the OSI protocol stack, third wireless communication parameters determined at the level of the data link layer based on measurements performed at a level of a physical layer of the OSI protocol stack.
- the first wireless communication parameters comprise a streaming service quality EpiR(t r ) of the download of the multimedia content MC from the server to the client determined at the application layer of the OSI protocol stack;
- the second wireless communication parameters comprise a measured assigned bandwidth RRx(t r ) assigned for downloading the multimedia content MC from the server to the client by means of the wireless communication network determined at the data link layer of the OSI protocol stack,
- the third wireless communication parameters comprise an allowable physical data rate for the download of the multimedia content MC from the server to the client based on a transmission channel quality determined at the data link layer of the OSI protocol stack on the basis of said measurements performed at level of physical layer of the OSI protocol stack.
- each iteration of the step of selecting a version segi j among the plurality of versions of each portion ck j of the multimedia content MC comprises obtaining the wireless communication parameters at least once.
- the streaming service quality ⁇ ( ⁇ ⁇ ) comprises a packet loss rate moving average ⁇ ( ⁇ ) determined as
- EpLR(tr) 7 x E PLR (tr-l) + (1 ⁇ j) x PLR(t r ),
- ⁇ ⁇ ( ⁇ ⁇ ) is a packet loss rate moving average for the current iteration
- EpLp(t r -j) is a packet loss rate moving average determined at a previous iteration
- PLR(t r ) is a packet loss rate for current iteration
- y is a smoothing constant used to compute the moving average of the considered parameter.
- the allowable physical data rate comprises a maximum instantaneous physical data rate dmaxftpTi) computed as:
- ⁇ ( ⁇ ) is the maximum instantaneous physical data rate
- nRE is a number n of resource elements RE dedicated to transmission of data referred to the versions of the portions of the multimedia content within a considered resource block
- OH is an overhead due to the OSI protocol stack
- 0.9 is a corrective factor
- efficency is a value taken from the Table 7.2.3-1 of 3GPP TS 36.213 on the basis of a measured SINR for the considered resource block
- the allowable physical data rate further comprises a moving average Dmax(trn) of the physical data rate computed as:
- Dmax(trri) is the moving average of the physical data rate for the current iteration
- Dmax(tTTi-i) is a moving average of the physical data rate for a previous iteration
- ⁇ is the smoothing constant used to compute the moving average of the considered parameter.
- each iteration of the step of selecting a version segi j among the plurality of versions of each portion ck j of the multimedia content MC further comprises:
- the step a) of checking whether the measured assigned bandwidth RRx(t r ) is lower than an allowable encoding bit rate Rrx(t r ) comprises weighting the allowable encoding bit rate Rrx(t r ) by a rate threshold Rth.
- the step c) of verifying if the quality of the communication between the client and the server allows the next allowable encoding bit rate R T x(t r+ i) being greater than the allowable encoding bit rate RTx(t r ) comprises checking whether the next allowable physical data rate of the versions segi j of the portions ck j of the multimedia content MC to be downloaded is greater than the allowable physical data rate Dmax(trn) of the downloaded versions of the portions of the multimedia content MC.
- the step c) of verifying if the quality of the communication between the client and the server allows the next allowable encoding bit rate RTx(t r+ i) being greater than the allowable encoding bit rate Rrx(t r ) further comprises checking whether the streaming service quality E PLR (t r ) is lower than a streaming service quality threshold PLRth.
- the step d) of increasing the next allowable encoding bit rate Rrx(t r+ i) with respect to the allowable encoding bit rate Rrx(t r ) comprises setting the next allowable encoding bit rate Rrx(t r+ j) to a value corresponding to the allowable encoding bit rate Rrx(t r ) multiplied by a ratio n of the next allowable physical data rate Dmax(t r+ i) and the allowable physical data rate Dmax(t r ).
- the step e) of checking whether a quality of the communication between the client and the server allows the next allowable encoding bit rate Rrx(t r+ i) being greater than the allowable encoding bit rate Rjx(t r ) on the basis of the streaming service quality E PLR (t r ) and whether during a predetermined number of previous iterations the step of selecting a version segi j among the plurality of versions of each portion ck j of the multimedia content MC the allowable encoding bit rate RTX( ) has been set equal to the measured assigned bandwidth RRX( ) comprises checking whether the streaming service quality E PLR (t r ) is lower than a streaming service quality threshold PLRth.
- the step f) of increasing the allowable encoding bit rate Rrxft r+ i) to a value higher than the measured assigned bandwidth R R x(t r ) of the predetermined number of previous iterations Sth comprises setting the next allowable encoding bit rate Rrx(t r+ i) to a value corresponding to the allowable encoding bit rate RTX( ) multiplied by a multiplicative factor m.
- the step of selecting a version segi j among the plurality of versions of each portion cki of the multimedia content MC comprises selecting versions having the lowest encoding quality among the plurality of versions of each portion of the multimedia content in a first iteration of the step of selecting a version segi among the plurality of versions of each portion ck j of the multimedia content MC.
- Another aspect of the present invention proposes a client adapted to couple with a server through a wireless communication network for downloading a multimedia content MC, the multimedia content being subdivided into a plurality of portions ck j and for each portion ck j the server storing a plurality of versions segi j thereof each of which is encoded with a specific encoding quality brj j , wherein the client is configured to implement the method of above.
- Figure 1 is a principle schematic of a wireless communication network in which a client connects to a server for requesting a streaming service;
- Figure 2 is a simplified functional block schematic of protocol stack layers over which the rate control algorithm according to an embodiment of the present invention operates, and
- FIG. 3 is a simplified flowchart of the rate control algorithm according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- Figure 1 is a principle schematic of a (generic) wireless communication network 100 in which a client 105 (e.g. a client software application running on a user equipment) connects to a server 110 for requesting a streaming service.
- a client 105 e.g. a client software application running on a user equipment
- server 110 for requesting a streaming service.
- the wireless communication network 100 allows and manages communications of user equipments or UE (e.g., mobile telephones, smartphones, personal computers and tablets) such as a UE on which runs the client 105 over a geographical coverage area 112 by means of one or more radio communication stations, such as the radio communication station 115.
- UE user equipments or UE
- the wireless communication network 100 is a 3 GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE)/LTE Advanced (LTE- A) mobile telephony network adapted to manage communications (i.e., transmission and/or reception of information, such as binary data packets) within the geographical coverage area 112 by means of a plurality of evolved Node B (eNB).
- LTE Long Term Evolution
- LTE- A LTE Advanced
- eNB evolved Node B
- the server 110 is an entity that may be part of the wireless communication network 100, for example comprised in a core network portion of the wireless communication network 100, or, alternatively, connected to the wireless communication network 100, for example the server 110 is connected to the wireless communication network 100 by means of the Internet.
- the server 110 is configured to provide streaming services of multimedia contents, such as video clips, television content, music, Internet radio, to one or more clients, such as the client 105 (e.g., through the radio communication station 115).
- the server 110 is adapted to deliver a (stored or temporarily stored) multimedia content MC (e.g., a multimedia file, such as a video record) to the client 105 in such a way that the multimedia content MC is directly enjoyable by means of the client 105 substantially from the start of the multimedia content MC delivery.
- a multimedia content MC e.g., a multimedia file, such as a video record
- the multimedia content MC is scalable in the sense explained in the introductory part of the present description.
- the server 110 is configured to implement the MPEG-DASH standard.
- the multimedia content MC is subdivided in a plurality of multimedia content chunks or, simply, chunks cki (1 ⁇ i ⁇ I, wherein I is a positive integer) of fixed or variable (from chunk to chunk) length.
- Each chunk ck is associated with a plurality of multimedia content segments or, simply, segments segi j (1 ⁇ j ⁇ J, wherein J is a positive integer) available at the server 110.
- Each segment segi j of a same chunk cki comprises the same portion of the multimedia content MC but each one of the segments segi j is a version of the multimedia content MC portion (i.e., the chunk cki) which is encoded with a specific (average) encoding quality, such as for example an (average) encoding bit rate br tj (therefore, different segments have a different size, expressed in number of bits, one from the other).
- a specific (average) encoding quality such as for example an (average) encoding bit rate br tj (therefore, different segments have a different size, expressed in number of bits, one from the other).
- a list of chunks ck,, segments segi j and their location inside the server 110 (e.g., expressed by means of respective URLs), bit rates bri j , and possibly other parameters associated with the multimedia content (such as starting time and duration of the segment, resolution, codec name, and so on) are organized according to a so-called Media Presentation Description (MPD) file (referred to the multimedia content MC) stored into the server 110.
- MPD Media Presentation Description
- the client 105 In order to enjoy a (desired) streaming service, i.e. the delivery of the (desired) multimedia content MC from the server 110 to the client 105, the client 105 has first to obtain the MPD file associated with the multimedia content MC.
- the MPD file can be delivered by the server 110 to the client 105 by using HTTP, e-mail, or by similar data transmission mechanisms.
- the client 105 can send to the server 110 a request for receiving (i.e., downloading) segments segi j (of different chunks cki, generally from an initial chunk cki to a last chunk cki) of the multimedia content MC.
- the client 105 may estimate an available bandwidth and request the most suitable segments segi j (in terms of number of bits) of each chunk cki listed within the MPD.
- a rate control algorithm is implemented at the client 105.
- the rate control algorithm according to an embodiment of the invention has been designed to enable the client 105 for identifying the most suitable selection of the encoding bit rate of (chunks of) the multimedia content MC to be downloaded from the server 110, e.g., through the MPEG- DASH standard.
- the rate control algorithm advantageously exploits a cross-layer approach in which entities of multiple levels of the OSI protocol stack layer of the wireless communication network 100 interact with one another in order to identify the most suitable selection of segments segi j of each chunk cki of the multimedia content MC to be provided by the server 110 to the client 105.
- FIG 2 it is a simplified functional block schematic of OSI protocol stack layers over which the rate control algorithm according to an embodiment of the present invention operates.
- the rate control algorithm is implemented within a Rate Control Algorithm (RCA) functional module or entity 205 that is an entity provided at the application layer 201 of the OSI protocol stack.
- the RCA 205 is configured for dynamically selecting the segments segi j that the client 105 will request to the server 110, by considering information received from other entities of the protocols stack to which the RCA 205 is coupled.
- the RCA 205 interacts with a Quality of Service (QoS) Estimator functional module or entity 210 that is an entity provided at the application layer 201 as well.
- QoS Quality of Service
- the RCA 205 further interacts with a Bandwidth Estimator functional module or entity 215 that is an entity provided at a data link layer, preferably in the Media Access Control (MAC) layer 202 (within the data link layer), of the OSI protocols stack.
- MAC Media Access Control
- RCA 205 further interacts with a Channel Quality Estimator functional module or entity 220 that is an entity provided at the MAC layer 202 of the OSI protocol stack.
- the Channel Quality Estimator module 220 receives and exploits measures (described in the following) performed by a measuring module or entity 225 provided at the physical layer 203.
- the QoS Estimator 210 is configured to measure the quality of the streaming service based on transmission data, particularly the quality of the provision of the multimedia content MC to the client 105, expressed in terms of packet loss rate at the application layer 201. For example, for each segment segi j received by the client 105, the QoS Estimator 210 measures a packet loss rate PLR(t r ), wherein t r is an iteration time instant (and 1 ⁇ r ⁇ R, wherein R is a positive integer) at which an iteration of the rate control algorithm (as described in the following) starts, and estimates the moving average of the packet loss rate ⁇ ( ⁇ ) as:
- Ep LR (tr) J X E PLR (tr-l) + (1 - J) X PLR(t r ), (1)
- y is a smoothing constant, a positive number smaller than 1 , preferably like 0.8, used to compute the moving average of the considered parameter.
- the packet loss rate moving average E PLR (tr) thus computed is then reported by the QoS Estimator 210 to the RCA 205.
- the Bandwidth Estimator 215 is configured to measure an amount of bandwidth Rnx(t r ) (e.g., in terms of bits per second, bps) assigned for the transmission to the client 105 by the wireless communication network 100 (e.g., by the radio communication station 115 of the wireless communication network 100 serving the client 105) in a given time interval (as described in the following).
- the Bandwidth Estimator 215 provides the measured assigned bandwidth RRX( ) to the RCA 205.
- the Bandwidth Estimator 215 measures the amount of measured assigned bandwidth Rnx(t r ) assigned by the radio communication station 115, expressed in terms of bit/s, and then reports the measured assigned bandwidth RRX( ) to the RCA 205.
- the Channel Quality Estimator 220 is configured to determine the channel quality (e.g. expressed in terms of maximum physical data rate achievable by using the single resource block) experienced by the client 105 exploiting the measurements that are performed by the measuring module 225 at the physical layer level 203 and to evaluate the corresponding allowable physical data rate, corresponding to the measured channel quality.
- each mobile terminal is able to estimate a downlink channel quality in each Transmission Time Interval (TTI) - i.e. the smallest unit of time in which the wireless communication network 100 is capable of scheduling an UE, e.g. the client 105, for uplink (i.e., transmissions from the client 105 to the radio communication station 115) or downlink (i.e., transmission from the radio communication station 115 to the client 105) transmission.
- TTI Transmission Time Interval
- the Channel Quality Estimator 220 exploits a measure (performed by the measuring module 225 at the physical layer level 203) of the SINR (Signal to Interference plus Noise Ratio) of specific reference symbols sent by the radio communication station 115 to the client 105.
- the computed SINRs are then mapped into Channel Quality Information CQI values that the UE reports to the radio communication station 115.
- the measuring module 225 measures the SINR for each resource block (i.e., a fixed set of communication resources elements allocated to a UE, such as the client 105, during a TTI) and evaluates, through the Exponential Effective SINR Mapping (EESM) formula, the effective SINR. Then, Block Error Rate (BLER) curves available at the Channel Quality Estimator 220 are used to map each effective SINR into one respective CQI value.
- EESM Exponential Effective SINR Mapping
- the Channel Quality Estimator 220 computes, on the basis of the CQI values just determined, a maximum instantaneous physical data rate dmaxftrri) (where trri is the time instant of the corresponding TTI) and a moving average of the physical data rate Dmaxftrri), respectively, that the client 105 is able to reach in downlink transmission.
- a maximum instantaneous physical data rate dmaxftrri) (where trri is the time instant of the corresponding TTI) and a moving average of the physical data rate Dmaxftrri)
- the Table 7.2.3-1 reported into the 3GPP TS 36.213 specification may be used to convert the obtained CQI value into a corresponding spectral efficiency value.
- nRE is a number n of resource elements RE that are dedicated to transmission of data (e.g., data building up the segments segi :J ) within the considered resource block
- OH is a value lower than unity (i.e. OH ⁇ 1) that takes into account an overhead due to control headers added to each packet at the different layers in the OSI protocol stack
- the factor 0.9 takes into account the retransmissions of the H-ARQ protocol, which working point is typically set for a Block Error Rate (BLER) of 10% after the first transmission and efficency is the value taken from the Table 7.2.3-1 of 3GPP TS 36.213.
- BLER Block Error Rate
- the client 105 is able to compute the moving average ⁇ ( ⁇ ) of the instantaneous physical data rate through the following equation:
- Dmax(tTTi) ⁇ x Dmaxftrri-i) + (1 - ⁇ ) x ⁇ ⁇ ⁇ ⁇ ( ⁇ ), (3) wherein ⁇ is a smoothing constant (a number between 0 and 1, preferably set to 0.8) used to compute the moving average of the considered parameter.
- FIG. 3 it is a simplified flowchart of the rate control algorithm according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- the RCA 205 determines an allowable encoding bit rate Rrx(t r ) of the segments segi j to be downloaded from the server 110 by the client 105 starting from the iteration time instant t r .
- the allowable encoding bit rate Rrx(t r ) corresponds to a maximum encoding quality (i.e., the encoding bit rate b j ) of segments segi j that can be downloaded by the client 105 from the server 110 through the wireless communication network 100 during the iteration time instant t r (according to a quantity of resources, such as resource elements, assigned for the transmission of the multimedia content MC by the wireless communication network 100).
- the download of the segments segi j and the selection of the allowable encoding bit rate Rrx(t r ) are preferably executed at different time instants, with different periodicities.
- segments segi j are requested by the client 105 every time interval (i.e., with a first periodicity) corresponding to the segment time duration Ts (substantially equal for the segments segi j of a same chunk ckj, and therefore may be considered the time duration for the chunk cki), whereas the client 105 preferably calculates the proper allowable encoding bit rate Rrx(t r ) of the next chunks of multimedia content MC to be downloaded from the server 110 every time interval (i.e., with a second periodicity) corresponding to the playout delay Tp (this being a time delay from the beginning of the download of the multimedia content sufficiently long to ensure that a sufficient amount of data has been transferred from the server 110 to the client 105 before the latter starts playing the content; the playout delay Tp
- each playout delay Tp is an integer multiple of segment time durations 71s.
- a GOP is composed by one frame I and a certain number of frames P and B.
- the I frame is encoded by using intra- frame techniques, which means that the compression is handled by considering only information related to that specific I frame.
- the decoding of an I frame does not require the knowledge of any additional frame.
- P and B frames are instead encoded by using inter-frame techniques, which means that the compression is done considering information associated with that specific P or B frame and other P and B frames that belong to the GOP.
- a P frame is encoded by considering previous frames;
- a B frame is encoded by considering both previous and next frames. For both P and B frames, in order to perform the decoding process it is needed to receive all the frames considered during the encoding procedure.
- a number M of consecutive segments segi j (group g r of segments) selected for being downloaded from the server 110 have a same allowable encoding bit rate Rrx(t r ).
- This ensures a better perceived quality, or Quality of Experience (QoE), of the multimedia content MC by the end user that enjoys the multimedia content MC through the client 105.
- QoE Quality of Experience
- switching more often the allowable encoding bit rate Rrx(t r ) leads to consecutive segments segi j with (generally) different encoding bit rates br ;j which could be perceived by the end user as an overall unstable and/or corrupted multimedia content MC.
- a group g r of M segments segi j of the multimedia content MC is requested by the client 105 to the server 110.
- the client 105 arbitrarily selects the group gj of M segments segi j (i.e., from a first segment segi j to a M-th segment seg Mj ) having an initial allowable encoding bit rate Rrxifi) of the corresponding M initial chunks cA3 ⁇ 4 of the multimedia content MC.
- the client 105 selects the first group gi of M segments segi j that have been encoded with the lowest average encoding bit rate b j (procedure considered to be a conservative approach).
- the QoS Estimator 210 and the Bandwidth Estimator 215 measure and provide the moving average of the packet loss rate E PLR (t r ), the measured assigned bandwidth RRx(t r ), respectively, to the RCA 205, while the Channel Quality Estimator 220 provides the moving average Dmax(trri) of the maximum instantaneous physical data rate to the RCA 205 (as described above).
- the rate control algorithm starts a next iteration (block 325) at the time instant t r+ i in order to compute the next allowable encoding bit rate Rrx(t r+ i) for the next group g r+ i of M segments segtj.
- the rate threshold Rth may be dimensioned on the basis of a variability of actual encoding bit rates of segments seg tj with respect to the (average) encoding bit rates b j thereof.
- Rth can be also dimensioned by considering the variance of the encoding rate associated to a set of segments seg tj encoded with the same coding rate.
- a probability distribution for the actual encoding bit rates of segments seg tj of different chunks ck t having the same (nominal) encoding bit rate br tj may be built, and the rate threshold Rth may be based on a variance of such a probability distribution.
- the rate control algorithm checks if the measured assigned bandwidth RRx(t r ) possibly allows selecting the segments seg tj of the next segments group g r+ i with a higher quality (i.e., higher encoding bit rate br tj with respect to the previous group g r of segments seg tj .
- the encoding bit rate br tj of the previous group g r of segments seg tj is the maximum encoding bit rate br tj that can be handled at the measured assigned bandwidth Rnx(t r ) and, therefore, the next allowable encoding bit rate RTx(t r+ i) for the next group g r+ i of segments segt j is set (block 335) equal to the (previously) measured assigned bandwidth RRX( ), i.e.:
- the client selects the most suitable video segment, among those available at the server side, whose data rate is equal to or immediately less than the aforecomputed value.
- next allowable encoding bit rate Rrx(t r+ i) may be determined (block 370) by multiplying the (previous) allowable encoding bit rate Rrx(t r ) by the ratio n of the next moving average of the physical data rate Dmax(t r+ i) and the moving average of the physical data rate Dmax(t r ), or:
- the client selects the most suitable video segment, among those available at the server side, whose data rate is equal to or immediately less than the aforecomputed value.
- the rate control algorithm may be configured for performing a probing procedure for exploring the possibility of selecting the next group g r+ i of segments egi j with an increased bit rate even after both decision block 330 and decision block 345 return a negative check, instead of simply setting the next allowable encoding bit rate Rrx(t r+ i) for the next group gy + y of segments segi j equal to the (previously) measured assigned bandwidth RRx(t r ) (i.e., similarly to block 335).
- the counter iS counts the number of iterations of the rate control algorithm for which the next allowable encoding bit rate Rrx(t r+ i) has not been modified (either incremented, neither decremented).
- the algorithm decides not to select the next group g r+ i of segments egi j with an increased bit rate with respect to the next allowable encoding bit rate, the next encoding bit rate Rrx(t r+ i) is set (step 380) equal to the encoding bit rate RTX( ), determined by means of equation (12):
- the next allowable encoding bit rate Rrx(t r+ i) for the next group g r+ i of segments segi j is set (block 360) greater than the allowable encoding bit rate Rrx(t r ) selected at the previous iteration, by using equation (13), i.e.:
- m (with m>l) is a multiplicative factor designed for increasing the next allowable encoding bit rate Rrx(t r+ i) by one step (i.e., since the multimedia server 110 stores, for each video chunk C j a set of segments segi j encoded with different encoding data rates, this enable the user 105 to select the group of video segment segi j whose encoding data rate is immediately higher than the one select at the previous iteration of the algorithm).
- the rate control algorithm it is possible for a user to enjoy a multimedia content MC provided by the server 110 to the client 105 through the wireless communication network 100 (substantially) constantly and completely automatically at the best encoding bit rate bri j allowed by the wireless communication network 100 at the same time avoiding lags or interruptions during a playback of the multimedia content MC and ensure a good Quality of Experience perceived by the end-user.
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